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THE GOSPEL OF HEALTH.
DIVINE SERVICES IN THE BROOKLYN
TABERNACLE.

TABERNACLE.
Or, Tailnsge Rejoices That the Number
Of Christian rhysicians Is Increasing.
The wild Oats OF Youth Are Generally
sown In the Liver.
BROOKLYN, Nov. 20-The Rov.T. De Witt
Talmage, DID,, opened the service at tho
tabernacle this morning by giving out the
hymn beginning:
should coming days be cold and dark,
We need not cease our singing;
That perfect rest nought can MODEST,
Where golden harps are ringing.
He then explained a passage In the Gospel
Of St. Matthew, concerning the inferior kind
Of salt that was cast out to make walks Of, to
be trodden under foot of men. The subject
of DIR. Talmage's discourse was: 'The Cos
pei of Health" and his text from Proverbs
vii, 23: "Till a dart strike through his
liver" he said:
There is fashion In sermonics. A COM
paratively small part Of the Bible Is called on
for texts. Most of the passages OF Scripture,
when announced at the opening of sermons,
Immediately divide themselves into old dis
cussions that we have heard from boyhood,
and the effect on US is soporific. The audito
guesses at the start just what the preacher
will say. There are very important chapters
and verses that have never been preached
from. Much of my lifetime am devoting
to unlocking these gold chests and blasting
open these quarries. We talk about the
heart, and sing about the heart, but if you
refer to the physical organ that we call the
heart, it has not half so much to do with
spiritual health or disease, moral exaltation
or spiritual depression, as the organ to the
consideration Of which Solomon calls US in
the text, when he describes sin progressing
''till dart strike through his liver"
Solomon's anatomical and physiological
discoveries were 50 very great that he was
nearly 5000 years ahead of the scientists of
his day. He, more than 1000 years before
Christ, seemed to know about the circulation
| Of the blood, which Harvey discovered 1913
years after Christ, fer when Solomon in
Ecclesiastes, describing the human body,
speaks of the pitcher at the fountain, he evil
IDENTIFY means the three canals leading from
the heart that receive the blood like pitchers.
When he speaks in Ecclesiastes of the silver
cord of life, he evidently means the spinal
marrow, about which in our day Drs. Mayo,
and Carpenter, and Dalton, and Flint, and
Brown-Sequard have experimental. And
Solomon recorded in the Bible thousands of
years before scientists discovered it, that in
his time the spinal cord relaxed in old age,
producing the tremors Of hand and head:
| ''Or if the silver cord be loosed."
In the text he reveals the fact that he had
studied that largest gland Of the human sys-
tenn, the liver, not by the electric light of the
modern dissecting room, but by the dim light
of a comparatively dark age, and yet had
seen its important function in the God built
castle of the human body, its selecting and
secreting power, its curious cells, its elon
gated, branching tubes, divine workman
ship in central, and right, and left lobe, and
the hepatic artery through which God con.
ducts the crimson tides. Oh, this vital organ
is like the eye of God in that it never sleeps.
Solomon knew of it and had noticed either
| in vivisection or post norton what awful at
tacks sin and dissipation make upon it, until
with the fat of Almighty God it bids the
body and soul separate, and the one it com
mands to the grave and the other it sends to
judgment-a javelin of retribution, moi
CHANGING off or making slight wound, but
piercing it from side to side still the dart
strike through the liver" Galen and Hippo
crates ascribe to the liver the most of the
melancholy means black bile
1 preach to you this morning the gospel Of
health. In taking diagnoses of the diseases
of the soul you must also take the diagnose.
Of the diseases of the body. As if to recog
nize this, one whole book of the New Tesla
ment was written by physician. Luke was
a doctor, and he discourses much of physical
effects, and he tells of the good Samaritan's
medication of the wounds by pouring in oil
and wine, and recognizes hunger as hin
drance to hearing the Gospel, so that the
5000 were fed; and records the sparse diet OF
the prodigal away from home, and the extin
guished eyesight Of the beggar by the way
side, and let's us know of the hemor
rhage of the wounds of the dying
Christ and the miraculous post-rnorten
resuscitation. And any estimate of thu
spiritual condition that does not include
also an estimate of the physical condition
is incomplete. When the doorkeeper of con
gress fell dead from excessive Joy because
Burgoyne had surrendered at Saratoga, and
Philip V of Spain dropped dead at the news
of his country's defeat in battle, and Car
dinal Wolsey expired as a result of Henry
| Wits anathema, it was demonstrated that
the body and soul are SiameSe twins, anC
when you thrill the one with joy or sorrow
you thrill the other. We might as well rec
ognize the tremendous fact that there arr
two mighty fortresses in the human body
the heart and the liver-the heart, the fortress
of all the graces; the liver, the fortress of al
the furies. You may have the head filled
with all intellectualities, and the ear with al
musical appreciation, and the mouth with al
eloquence, and the hand with all industries
and the heart with all generoSitieS, and YET
g., dart strikes through the liver"
First, let Christian people avoid the mis-
take that they are all wrong with God be
cause they suffer from depression of spirits
Many q consecrated man has found his spiri
tual sky befogged, and his hope and HEAVIER
Iotted out, and himself plunged chin deep in
the Slough Of Despond, and has said: my
heart is not right with God, and think mus
have made mistake, and instead of being c
child of light am child of darkness. Nc
On, can feel as gloomy as l feel and be G
Christian" And he has gone to his minister
for consolation, and he has collected Flavelf
bonks and Cecil's books, and Bakers books
an read and read and read, and prayed ant
prayed and prayed, and wept and wept anG
wept, and groaned and groaned and groaned
My brother, your trouble is not with
thu heart; it is a gastric disorder OF
r, bellion of the liver. You need physi
clan more than you do clergyman. 1t il
not sin that blots out your hope of heaven
but bile. 1t not only yellows your eyeball
and furs your tongue, and makes your heac
ache, but swoops upon your soul in dejectionl
and forebodingS. The devil is after you. III
has failed to despoil your character, and ht
does the next best thing for him-he rufles
your peace of mind. When he says that yoT
IL,
you are not right with God, when he say
that you will never get to heaven, he lies
You are Just as sure of heaven as though you
were there already. But Satan, finding thai
he cannot keep you out of the promised lane
of Canaan, has determined that the spie.
shall not bring you any of the Eschol grape
beforehand, and that you shall have nothing
but prickIy pear and crab apple You ar
Just as good now under the cloud as you wer,
when you were accustomed to rise in tn
morning at o'clock to pray. and sing "Hal
IeiuJah, tits doneI" NJ, friend, Rev. DR.. 10
seph H. Jones, of Philadelphia, a translated
spirit now, wrote a book entitled ''Man
Moral and Physical in which he shows how
different the same things may appear to diff
ferent people. He says: "After the great
battle on the Mincio in 1859, between the
French and Sardinians on the one side and
the Austrians on the other, so disastrous t.
the latter, the defeated army reiterated fol
lowed by the victors. A description Of the
march Of each army is given by two CORE
spondents Of The London Times, one of whom
travelled with the successful host, the Other
with the defeated The difference in view
and statements Of the same place, scenes and
events is remarkable. The former are said t.
be marching through beautiful and luxu